I had the pleasure of working on the facial modeling/blendshapes of all the lions (and lioness) in the movie Beast (staring Idris ELba), I had so much fun working on this with an amazing team at Framestore
I tweaked the initial faces structure to better match the Lion anatomy and was responsible for all the facial shapes.
it was a great privilege to work with Alvise Avati (anim sup) and Dan Neal (CG sup).
.... Rishikesh Nandlaskar was responsible for most of the modeling part and detailing as well, Andrea De Martis was also heavily involved in the anatomy correction of the face ... as usual Andre Santos was the facial rigger on the show